{"id":23421,"date":"2018-08-06T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=23421"},"modified":"2018-08-06T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:32:15","slug":"joey-lynch-wins-2018-scenic-city-invitational-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/08\/06\/joey-lynch-wins-2018-scenic-city-invitational-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Lynch Wins 2018 Scenic City Invitational Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend saw the fourth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/08\/02\/preview-scenic-city-invitational-tournament-8-3-18-8-4-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Scenic City Invitational Tournament<\/strong><\/a>, a 16-man indie tournament held in Tennessee, that saw one of last year&#8217;s finalists, <strong>Joey Lynch<\/strong>, win the trophy as the tournament&#8217;s eventual winner. Lynch had a hard fought path to the trophy, defeating <strong>Curt Stallion, PCO, Gary Jay, Fred Yehi<\/strong> and <strong>Corey Hollis<\/strong> along the way.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your 2018 Scenic City Invitational champion, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJoeyLynch20?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheJoeyLynch20<\/a> ! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uyt8XVrayV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Uyt8XVrayV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SCI Tickets are on sale now (@SCITournament) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCITournament\/status\/1025941724529606656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year old native of Rossville, Georgia has been a Southern indie star for nearly a decade, training out of the <strong>Face 2 Face Wrestling School<\/strong>, run by WWE Superstar <strong>Heath Slater<\/strong> and WWE Hall of Famer <strong>Teddy Long<\/strong>, who also features trainers <strong>Jason Kincaid, Ron Simmons<\/strong> and former WWE Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Jazz<\/strong>. In 2013, he began working with <strong>Empire Wrestling Federation (EWE)<\/strong> in his home town, which was the original home for the Scenic City Invitational Tournament until EWE&#8217;s closure in 2016. He has since spent time with <strong>Anarchy Wrestling, ACTION Wrestling, Mucha Lucha Atlanta (MLA)<\/strong> and <strong>Southern Fried Championship Wrestling (SFCW)<\/strong>, as well as appearances with <strong>EVOLVE, Carolina Wrestling Federation (CWF) Mid Atlantic<\/strong>, and <strong>Premier Wrestling Xperience (PWX)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FULL FREE MATCH - Jonathan Gresham vs Joey Lynch - Powerbomb.tv&#039;s FUTURES\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6O9yNSS4OuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He had WWE tryouts earlier this year and competed on\u00a0<em><strong>205 Live<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>on June 12, competing as <strong>Steve Irby<\/strong> in a loss against former WWE Cruiserweight Champion <strong>Akira Tozawa<\/strong>.\u00a0Joey Lynch becomes the fourth winner of the SCIT, joining previous winners\u00a0<strong>Matt Riddle\u00a0<\/strong>(2017),\u00a0<strong>Gunner Miller\u00a0<\/strong>(2016) and\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Rave\u00a0<\/strong>(2015).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Akira Tozawa vs. Steve Irby: WWE 205 Live, June 12, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hk8E-6aLMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend saw the fourth annual Scenic City Invitational Tournament, a 16-man indie tournament held in Tennessee, that saw one of last year&#8217;s finalists, Joey Lynch, win the trophy as the tournament&#8217;s eventual winner. Lynch had a hard fought path to the trophy, defeating Curt Stallion, PCO, Gary Jay, Fred Yehi and Corey Hollis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":23425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3170,2665,3148],"class_list":["post-23421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-joey-lynch","tag-pco","tag-scenic-city-invitational"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}